From: jorge alonso <livebrain@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Fwd: iptables & ifconfig wrong packet accounting
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:53:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c65016fb041213225326c55a98@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102971862.3629.23.camel@hubcap.ljm.dom>
isnt that only used at the beginning, when dhcp obtain the ip ?
i dont understand the arp dhcp process :(
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:04:22 -0500
Subject: Re: iptables & ifconfig wrong packet accounting
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 01:21, jorge alonso wrote:
> i'm trying to do traffic accounting with iptables but the received
> packets from iptables (iptables -L -v) and packets from ifconfig dont
> match.
> ifconfig counts more packets is it normal ?
my guess would be that 'ifconfig' counts packets such as arp and dhcp
requests/replies that never make it up to the netfilter hooks.
-j
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2004-12-13 6:21 iptables & ifconfig wrong packet accounting jorge alonso
2004-12-13 21:04 ` Jason Opperisano
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